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Quality Assurance Analyst |
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Permanent, full-time |
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Culver City, CA |
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| Job summary: |
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This position is responsible for testing all Xap products to ensure that they meet Xap's rigorous quality assurance standards. As part of a team with four to six staff members, the Quality Assurance Analyst will ensure quality, performance and functionality of Xap's software products, and websites. |
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Actively contribute to the team effort to maintain the vision and direction of the quality assurance team, and provide creative and practical solutions to meet business goals |
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Perform interface usability, functionality, data integrity, regression and performance (stress and load) testing |
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Create test plans, test scripts, and project plans based on the analysis of technical specifications |
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Review functional specifications and create/review test cases |
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Document, track and communicate test results, and analysis of unresolved problems |
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Efficiently and effectively communicate status of assigned tasks with various individuals and teams, developers/engineers, and management |
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Actively participate in review, and inspection meetings, give input on requirement and design documents |
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Identify, analyze, and document defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies |
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Identify variances from standards and suggest modifications to conform |
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Work individually with minimum supervision, or in a team environment |
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| Requirements: |
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Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience |
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A minimum of 1-2 years recent work experience in a software quality assurance environment is required |
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Ability to develop, review and execute test plans and document results for both manual and automated testing |
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Thorough knowledge of the software development lifecycle and quality assurance processes. Programming, troubleshooting, and debugging skills are helpful |
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Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal and time-management skills |
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Experience with bug tracking/issue management systems, scripting, and automated test tools, and load testing concepts and methodologies |
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Experience with user-interface, functionality, data integrity, regression and performance (stress and load) testing |
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Experience with black box and white box testing |
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Knowledge of database technology, writing SQL scripts, queries and creating test data |
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Knowledge of IT basics, including installing operating systems, ghosting/imaging, VMWare, network troubleshooting, and ability to analyze and troubleshoot operating system error logs |
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Strong understanding of internet technologies (Web servers, Application servers, JavaScript, HTML, XML, web services, etc.) |
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Windows experience is required; LINUX/UNIX helpful |
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Flexibility and ability to multi-task in a fast paced dynamic environment |
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